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12 December 2014Big Pharma

Drug makers on brink of $65bn patent cliff, says report

Pharmaceutical companies will suffer an estimated $65 billion drop in sales over the next five years due to the expiry of patents protecting several leading drugs, according to a UK research and consulting firm.

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